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See also:CZENSTOCHOWA, or CHENSTOKHOV , a See also:town of See also:Russian See also:Poland, in the See also:government of See also:Piotrkow, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Warta (See also:Warthe), 143 M. S.W. of See also:Warsaw, on the railway between that See also:city and See also:Cracow. Pop. (1900) 53,650. Here is a celebrated monastery crowning the steep See also:eminence called Yaznagora or Klarenberg. It was founded by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Vladislaus of the See also:house of Jagiello and was at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time fabulously wealthy. In 1430 it was attacked and plundered by the See also:Hussites; in 1655, and again in 1705, it bravely resisted the Swedes; but in 1772 it was forced to capitulate to the Russians, and in 1793 to the Prussians. The fortifications, which had been built from 1 soo onwards, were razed in 1813. This monastery, which is occupied by monks of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Paul the See also:Hermit, contains over the See also:altar in its See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church a painted See also:image of the Virgin, traditionally believed to have been painted by St See also:Luke,. and visited annually by throngs (400,000) of pilgrims from all over See also:Russia, eastern See also:Prussia and other neighbouring regions. The inhabitants ofthe town manufacture See also:cotton, See also:cloth and See also:paper, and do a lively business in rosaries, images, scapularies and so forth.
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